There's a whaling museum in Lahaina on Maui, which has lots of good stuff. I happened to visit it one time while a book group was reading Moby Dick and it made a great impression.
I agree, the museum is great. I visited there shortly after I read Moby Dick and that was where I learned about the marathon. But I was there in August and not January so missed it as well. Sadly I live in the Midwest. Will have to try to plan when there isn’t a horrible snow storm to make it there in the future.
My wife visited the museum on Nantucket and said that was also a very enjoyable experience.
What I miss the most of my coming of age time during the 90s is the process of logging on and off.
Once I got my Cleveland Freenet Account I loved popping on after school to check my email (which at that point was really just personal messages from a few friends) and stopping by IRC to chat.
The limiting factor of dinner time and needing to free up the phone lines was great to limit daily use.
Snowden’s _Permanent Record_ did a nice job capturing this feeling for those around 40.
Wow haven’t thought about Gopher in forever. I still prefer to interact with the command line instead of the GUI for most things. I’ll have to give that a try.
This part of the article had me scratching my head:
"Hansson’s response to this employee took aback many of the workers I spoke with. He dug through old chat logs to find a time when the employee in question participated in a discussion about a customer with a funny-sounding name. Hansson posted the message — visible to the entire company — and dismissed the substance of the employee’s complaint"
